Staying Healthy
Not only does milk taste great with your favorites at breakfast time, but a growing body of research continues to link milk and its nutrients to a range of health benefits. From established benefits like bone health and reduced risk for osteoporosis, to its role in healthy weight management and diabetes, drinking milk is good for your health!
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A Healthy Heart
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Milk, Calcium, and Vitamin D and the Risk of Hypertension in Middle-Aged and Older Women
Women who drank more fat free milk and had higher intakes of calcium and vitamin D from foods, and not supplements, tended to have a lower risk for developing hypertension or high blood pressure. MORE
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Research Links Milk and Dairy Consumption to a Reduced Risk for High Blood Pressure
A new National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute study showed that people who consumed more lowfat dairy products like fat free and lowfat milk were 36 percent less likely to have high blood pressure than those who ate the least amount of dairy, less than half a serving per day. MORE
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Study Suggests a Little Milk Could Go a Long Way For Your Heart
Adults who had at least one serving of lowfat milk or milk products each day had 37 percent lower odds of poor kidney function linked to heart disease compared to those who drank little or no lowfat milk. MORE
Weight Management
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Drinking Milk in the Morning May Help Stave Off Lunchtime Hunger
Drinking fat free milk in the morning helped increase satiety, or a feeling of fullness, and led to decreased calorie intake at the next meal, as compared with a fruit drink, according to one study. MORE
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Drinking Milk May Help Dieters Maintain Weight Loss
Researchers found that higher calcium intakes, mostly from milk and other milk products and not supplements, was linked to less weight gain 18 months after a significant weight loss. MORE
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Not Getting Enough Milk and Dairy During Preschool Years May Lead to Weight Gain in Adolescence
Researchers at Boston University found that youngsters who get adequate amounts of dairy foods daily seem to lower their risk of becoming overweight. MORE
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Research Shows Beverage Choice Significantly Impacts Weight and Nutrient Intakes of Adolescent Girls
Young girls tripled their intake of sugary sodas as they entered adolescence, making sodas the number one beverage consumed by older girls – a trend that is being blamed for an increase in weight (BMI) and a severe shortage of calcium. While milk consumption declined 25 percent during the same time period, drinking milk was linked to a lower BMI and a higher intake of calcium. MORE
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Study Finds Milk Drinkers May Have a Healthy Weight Advantage
Researchers found that adults who drank the most milk and had the highest vitamin D levels at 6 months, lost more weight after 2 years than those who had little or no milk or milk products — nearly 12 pounds weight loss, on average. MORE
Bone Health
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Prevent a Bone Break, Drink Milk to Boost Calcium
Healthy men and women supplemented with 1,200 mg of calcium per day – the amount in four glasses of milk – reduced their risk of bone fractures by 72 percent. MORE
Diabetes
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Milk-Drinking Teens Reap Health Benefits Through Adulthood
Milk-drinking teens, were also likely to be milk-drinking adults – a lifelong habit that was associated with a 43 percent lower risk for type 2 diabetes compared to non-milk drinkers. MORE
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Research Finds Combination of Calcium and Vitamin D May Offer Protection Against Type 2 Diabetes
Drinking more milk – a leading source of calcium and vitamin D in the American diet – could help decrease the risk of type 2 diabetes by nearly 15 percent. MORE
Cancer
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Boosting Key Milk Nutrients May Protect Against Cancer
Increasing intake of calcium and vitamin D could reduce the risk for cancer in women by at least 60 percent. MORE
Other Benefits
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A Glass of Milk a Day Could Benefit Your Brain
New research finds milk drinkers scored better on memory and brain function tests. Researchers found that adults with higher intakes of milk and milk products scored significantly higher on memory and other brain function tests than those who drank little to no milk. Milk drinkers were five times less likely to “fail” the test, compared to non milk drinkers. MORE
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Could Vitamin D, A Key Milk Nutrient, Affect How You Age?
There is a new reason for the 76 million baby boomers in the United States to grab a glass of … MORE
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Vitamin D, A Key Milk Nutrient, Linked to Better Muscle Power
In a study of more than 2,100 female twin pairs ages 19-79, researchers found that higher vitamin D levels were linked to improved genetic measures of lifelong aging and chronic stress. MORE